[ecrea] XIII MAGIS - International Film Studies Spring School

Registration is still open for the XIII Magis International Film Studies 
Spring School


The MAGIS Spring School is an International Film Studies Spring School 
dedicated to MA students, PhD students, and young researchers. The 
MAGIS, founded in 2003, provides high standard interdisciplinary 
seminars and workshops on topics such as cinema and visual arts, 
post-cinema, porn studies, and film heritage.



The XIII MAGIS Spring School will be held in Gorizia (Italy) from March 
20 to 24, 2015.


Here are some highlights on the School's programme:


Cinema & Contemporary Visual Art

The Section aims to encourage the discussion on the intertextual and 
intermedial relations between moving images and contemporary visual 
arts, through the voice of scholars, artists, and curators.



Guests: Albert Serra (filmmaker) and Christa Sommerer (artist and curator)



Guided tour of the exhibition: “Interface Cultures” (Villa Manin, 
Codroipo, UD – March 20-April 19)



Post-cinema: The Border Within II – The Body, the Power, the Media

The section aims at investigating the contemporary developments of the 
(human) body in the realm of new media, analysing its status in 
videogames, transmedia platforms, social networks, and all the various 
other Internet features.



Guests: BE ANOTHER LAB (artists collective), Antoine Viviani (filmmaker 
and producer), Stuart Allen (Cardiff University)



Interactive Virtual Reality installation The Machine to Be Another



Roundtable about “immersive environments”



Porn Studies: Cartography of the Pornographic Audiovisual

The section investigates the relationships between sex, commerce, media, 
and technology. It has a specific focus on the histories and geographies 
of pornographic representations, on the migration of forms among 
different cultural contexts, on the shifting ethics and aesthetics of 
sexual representations.



Guests: Feona Attwood (Middlesex University – editor of Porn Studies), 
Paolo Caneppele (Österreichisches Filmmuseum), Oliver Carter (Birmingham 
City University), Lynn Comella (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Kevin 
Heffernan (Southern Methodist University), Rosanna Maule (Concordia 
University), John Mercer (BCU), Ronald Simons (EYE Film Institute 
Netherlands), Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland – editor of Porn 
Studies), Renato Stella (University of Padova), Frédéric Tachou 
(filmmaker and author)



Workshops on: ethics in Web 2.0 porn, vintage porn, contemporary US porn



Evening screening with rare silent pornographic films (in collaboration 
with EYE)



Film Heritage: Voice/Speech/Word – Dubbing and Subtitling in Comparative 
Contexts

The section is organized by University of Udine – La Camera Ottica Film 
and Video Restoration, CineGraph Hamburg, University of Applied Sciences 
Potsdam & University of Potsdam (European Media Studies). In recent 
years, issues concerning dubbing and subtitling have reached a great 
scholarly interest mainly as a consequence of the extraordinary changes 
the digital caused to film experience. The section is entirely dedicated 
to the issues of dubbing and subtitling from a strongly transnational 
and comparative perspective.



Guests: Mark Betz (King’s College, London – To be confirmed), Anna Sofia 
Rossholm (Linnaeus University), Anna Kirchhartz  (Independent scholar), 
Carla Mereu (University of Reading), Francesco Bono (University of Perugia)



Special Guest Dusan Hanak (director, one of the most influential figures 
of the Slovak Nová Vlna)





The XIII MAGIS Spring School will be held in Gorizia (Italy) from March 
20 to 24, 2015.



MA students and PhD candidates are invited to register before February 
15, contacting Anna Bertolli ((anna.berto /at/ gmail.com))



The fee is 100 euros to be paid in cash at the registration desk or via 
bank transfer.

The fee includes: the official School’s publications (books and 
journals); admission to all the morning plenary sections, afternoon 
workshops, evening screenings; two aperitifs at the events opening and 
closing the School; an accommodation service that will help you find 
your room in Gorizia and find the best travel solutions.



For further details, please see the attached document or visit: 
http://www.filmforumfestival.it/infostudents/



Would you need any further information do not hesitate to contact us!



Warmest regards,



The Scientific coordinators of the MAGIS

Andrea Mariani ((andreamariani.home /at/ gmail.com))

Sara Martin ((sara.martin /at/ uniud.it))

Leonardo Quaresima ((leonardo.quaresima /at/ uniud.it))

Federico Zecca ((federico.zecca /at/ uniud.it))

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